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Ballad of Serenity
lyrics and music by Joss Whedon
sung by Sonny Rhodes
(obtained from the Extras page via their lyrics link on the Can’t Take the Sky website)
(also have the .mp3 of this song!)
take my love
take my land
take me where I cannot stand
I don’t care
I’m still free
you can’t take the sky from metake me out
to the black tell ’em I ain’t coming back
burn the land
and boil the sea
you can’t take the sky from mehave no place
I can be
since I found Serenity
but you can’t take the sky from me
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I went to see the movie, Serenity, tonight. Wow.
I don’t go to the movies much unless it is animated like Shrek or Monsters Inc or stuff along that vein. But when I first heard this was going to be out, I have eagerly awaited the chance.
Serenity is based on a short-lived TV series called Firefly. Fox, being the morons that they were/are, cut it short because they didn’t like it. Who cared that the audience did. They presented the shows out of order, kept changing the time and date, then would skip several weeks. If their goal was to cut the fan base down, I don’t think it worked.
Anyway, Serenity and Firefly were both written by Joss Whedon, the same dude who did Buffy and Angel. He is an excellent writer, able to make a point and make it fun and interesting to watch. I was impressed with the movie. It did a decent job of both incorporating the existing fans but also to cultivate new ones. One didn’t need to see the series in order to ‘get’ the movie. Some places here and there may have been confusing if you hadn’t seen the whole thing.
The writing is excellent of course, as were the acting. Nothing can ruin a great script faster than some awful actor. The only exception to this would be William Shatner, in my opinion. The camera action was good. Firefly was known for its different camera angles and tricks.
Some questions from the series were answered, many were not. More questions abound now after seeing the movie. I would be tickled if they started the series up again.
I won’t spoil the movie for you by telling you the plot. I will say it was funny, fast, gory (to a degree) and emotional. Oh, and all the original cast are there.
Go see this movie.